Job 21
1 And Job answers and says:
Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,
2 “Hear my word diligently, And this is your consolation.
Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.
3 Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking—you may deride.
Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
4 [Is] my complaint [against] man? And if [so], why may my temper not become short?
Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
5 Turn to me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
6 Indeed, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh has taken fright.
Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
7 Why do the wicked live? They have become old, Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth.
Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
8 Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
9 Their houses [are] peace without fear, Nor [is] a rod of God on them.
Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.
10 His bullock breeds without fail. His cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.
Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
11 They send forth their sucklings as a flock, And their children skip,
They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.
12 They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of a pipe.
They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. (Sheol h7585)
14 And they say to God, Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Your ways We have not desired.
They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
15 What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?
Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
16 Behold, their good [is] not in their hand (The counsel of the wicked Has been far from me).
Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And their calamity comes on them? He apportions pangs in His anger.
How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.
18 They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away,
They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
19 God lays up for his sons his sorrow, He gives repayment to him—and he knows.
God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
20 His own eyes see his destruction, And he drinks of the wrath of the Mighty.
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
21 For what [is] his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?
22 Does [one] teach knowledge to God, Since He judges [those] on high?
Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?
23 This [one] dies in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.
One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
24 His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow moistens his bones.
His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.
25 And this [one] dies with a bitter soul, And has not eaten with gladness.
And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
26 Together they lie down on the dust, And the worm covers them over.
They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.
27 Behold, I have known your thoughts, And the schemes against me you do wrongfully.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
28 For you say, Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent—the dwelling places of the wicked?
For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?
29 Have you not asked those passing by the way? And do you not know their signs?
May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.
30 That the wicked is spared to a day of calamity. They are brought to a day of wrath.
But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31 Who declares his way to his face? And [for] that which he has done, Who gives repayment to him?
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done?
32 And he is brought to the graves, And a watch is kept over the heap.
Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.
33 The clods of the valley have been sweet to him, And he draws every man after him, And there is no numbering before him.
The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
34 And how do you comfort me [with] vanity, And trespass has been left in your answers?”
How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
